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When you learned how to insult people from YouTube diss tracks back in 2016

Yeah there’s no real comparison between this and the author’s reply within the plot of Fault In Our Stars. Vonnegut gives good advice here. I obsessively saved everything I ever wrote for years. I found that destroying or forgetting the stuff I made made me focus on creating for the right reasons and allowed me to honed my taste once I started missing a piece or two and wishing I hadn’t deleted them. The vast majority of ideas, the initial gush of output that could eventually be formed into a Good Thing, are nothing exceptional. And that’s okay

So when John Green was younger he was a student chaplain for a children’s hospital in Ohio. He tried to write a book about it for like a decade, but only finished after Esther Earl, a young Internet personality who he was close with through Nerdfighteria, died of thyroid cancer at the age of 16.

So this book is about a young girl who has cancer and is really into YA books and writes her favorite author, who himself has written a book about a young girl with cancer. She goes to meet him as her Make A Wish thing and he ends up being a total prick. She wants to ask him questions about the characters and get some resolution and he straight up tells her no, that she’s being a silly child and that his characters are fictional, so the answers don’t exist. You find out later that he wrote this book that she loved so much as a way to cope with grief of losing his daughter. So its success was very much tied to the worst day of his life. But at that point he’s already been such an asshole that it doesn’t matter.

Yup, pretty much. I guess the implication was that Vonnegut was being a prick, but I don’t see that at all tbh

HR really shooting themselves in the foot. Now they’re gonna have to dismiss the accusers of someone who’s publicly admitted to the assault

If you buy an edible from a dispensary run by a white woman who looks like jerky in a sun dress, you’re not gonna die, but you’re gonna feel like you are.

Do we have a pro-communist encyclopedia? I will happily switch

Now reading CWU in my head as “soo-woo”

Yeah, I read all sorts of news sources and article publishers. We live in a time where the liberal gatekeeping of truth is withering, so the best you can do is be aware of how any given source leans and spins things. Hell, some stories aren’t covered outside of Fox because they have so many local affiliates. There’s only so much you can do. But I acknowledge that Wikipedia can be particularly insidious and has a lot of fascist sympathizing power users

You can search for specific games if you want to see how stable it is or what the best install method is. But I just installed and ran with it and haven’t had an issues (although I have an AMD graphics card)